Since I am currently living on the Big Island of Hawaii, in Hilo about a mile from bay front, I thought I would put my time to use (while hunkered down) blogging about a first hand account with Hurricane's Iselle and Julio. I plan to do this blog like an updating journal entry. Laws that have broad bi-partisan support come few and far between, but the GI Bill that was passed in 1944 is one of those few bills that will bring together both the most ardently conservative and die hard liberal because it was a law designed to thank those who made the ultimate sacrifice in serving our country. Folklore has said the moon cycles have a large role in humans and animals sleep methods and quality. With the next full moon approaching July 12th, I wonder how many people this will actually affect. There have been some very interesting studies done before, during, and just after full moon cycles that show this folklore to actually hold great weight. If you have been keeping up with the news aggregate catch-all site 'Google News' lately, you will notice an uptick in what's "becoming the norm" as President Obama recently put it: school shootings. I know I've noticed it. And it got me wondering just how many school shootings have taken place lately? Feels more and more like an everyday, or at least every week occurrence lately. A 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck near Los Angeles early Monday morning, waking a lot of people up earlier than usual but not causing any immediate reports of major damages or injuries. While millions of Californians are breathing a collective sigh of relief, it is only a matter of time before the next big earthquake hits California. The Australian Open for tennis has happened every year since it's inception back in 1905. And it's just like any other sporting event in the sense that headlines typically read very generic: So and so wins big. Upset in the making. Underdog prevails! The streak continues.. and so on and so forth. But this year, that's not really where the story was at.
2011 Egyptian Protests News & Opinion Articles |  | Fri Jan 16, 2015 | theatlantic.com
Four years after the revolution he helped lead, Basem Kamel has noticeably scaled back his ambitions. The regime he and his friends thought they overthrew after storming... |
|  | Sun Nov 30, 2014 | reuters.com
Protests erupted at universities across Egypt on Sunday, condemning a court decision to drop criminal charges against Hosni Mubarak, the president whose ouster in the 2011... |
|  | Sat Nov 29, 2014 | vox.com
Officially, the case was dismissed on a technicality: prosecutors were supposed to follow a special procedure in May 2011 when they added Mubarak as a co-defendant to a... |
|  | Sun Jan 26, 2014 | bbc.co.uk
Rival demonstrations of supporters and opponents of the military-backed government took place in Cairo.
But police broke up anti-government protests, and arrests were... |
|  | Sun Aug 18, 2013 | npr.org
Egyptians are no longer talking about how to build a democracy. The fear now is that the country could be flirting with civil war. |
|  | Wed Aug 14, 2013 | huffingtonpost.com
Egypt's police and military stormed a pair of Muslim Brotherhood protest sites here early Wednesday morning, leaving scores of protesters dead and many more wounded as... |
|  | Fri Jul 26, 2013 | worldnews.nbcnews.com
Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi is under investigation for a slew of charges including murder, according to the state news agency, stoking tensions throughout Egypt... |
|  | Thu Jul 04, 2013 | cnn.com
Egypt's top prosecutor opened an investigation Thursday into claims that Mohamed Morsy and top leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood incited violence and the killing of... |
|  | Wed Jul 03, 2013 | allafrica.com
The latest figures state that approximately 17 million people protested all over Egypt. If these numbers are true, Sunday's protest is the largest in human history. |
|  | Thu Nov 22, 2012 | nytimes.com
With a constitutional assembly on the brink of collapse and protesters battling the police in the streets over the slow pace of change, President Morsi granted himself... |
2011 Egyptian Protests Videos |  | Tue Dec 17, 2013
A Netflix original documentary, "The Square" is a riveting, deeply human chronicle of the Egyptian protest movement... |
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Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas, elaborates on the role Twitter and other social media tools have played in... |
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